Unions in decline? What has changed and why

Annual Review of Political Science

Volumn 3, Issue , 2000, Pages 355-377

  Wallerstein, Michael ^a   Western, Bruce ^b  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Collective bargaining; Industrial relations; Wage setting

Indexed keywords

EID: 0034363451     PISSN: 10942939     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.polisci.3.1.355     Document Type: Article

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